The same man who just two days earlier launched a scathing attack on club management following the 2-1 finals loss to Brisbane?

In an extraordinary change of sentiment, Galekovic yesterday emerged from a meeting with chairman Greg Griffin, chief executive Glenn Elliott and football director Michael Petrillo to present a united front at Hindmarsh.

One big, happy family of which Galekovic is the heart and soul.

He would not reveal exactly what was said at the meeting called to "clear the air", but said it was constructive and all parties were now on the same page.

As interim coach Michael Valkanis ruled himself out of the race for the job full-time, Galekovic said the club faced the most important decision in its history in making an appointment.

"Whoever that is, everyone just has to get on board and back him," Galekovic said.

But he was adamant players would have nothing to do with the search.

"Not at all, we're players. Our job is to get on the pitch. We're not a CEO or board members - we're here to play football."

Galekovic's issue is returning the club to its former glory and said that started with rebuilding the damaged culture.

"I care about this club," he said. "We want to move forward. We want to build this club to be like it was and bigger and we put things forward to a few people on the board about what we want to achieve.

"The culture - we want everyone to be together again - the board, players, supporters, members. A few years back it was a very close group and that needs to start happening again."

Also yesterday, Galekovic:

WOULD not apologise or retract comments made in his rant on Monday.

"I don't apologise for what I said. At the time I did it for a reason, because I care about this club," he said.

SAID he wanted to fulfil the final year of his contract with Adelaide. "If everything is good I'd love to stay," he said.

"I've got one more year to go ... and like I said, I want to stay at this club."

CONCEDED the club had struggled under constant change.

"You look at the stability of the club previously - the number of coaches we've had, there's been a lot of change and it's hard to build a culture when things like that happen.

"New people get involved all the time and we need stability."

DISTANCED himself from rumours that players refused to attend a meeting on Tuesday.

WOULD not bite back at Brisbane defender Jade North's claims that Adelaide's weekend tactics were "disgraceful".

"There were two boys who got injured that were accidental. The third one, yeah, it wasn't a great challenge but there was no intent to hurt anyone," Galekovic said.

"The way the game panned out, it was a tough game."

Cassio said he felt for supporters who were disappointed with the end to the Reds' season, but talks with management were "positive".

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